Reply to post: Re: Blacklist credential stuffers

Friday FYI: 9 out of 10 of website login attempts? Yeah, that'll be hackers

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Blacklist credential stuffers

"For memorable passwords that are difficult to guess"

Which raises the question of why so many sites in this century are STILL restricting passwords to 8 (or if they're generous 12) character maximums instead of allowing passphrases.

qwertypo was adequate in the 1970s. not now.

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